3 Ways to Overcome Feeling Useless When You Want a Business
Leaving your comfort zone can bring on many emotions.
Some good emotions and some not so good!
But whatever emotion you choose to adopt will ultimately define your experience.
Starting a business is a scary and uncertain time, but when you start feeling useless, what can you do about it?
The issue with feeling useless is that you don’t know where to turn or what direction to head next.
So will you sit still and do nothing?
Doing nothing never helped anyone!
3 Ways to Overcome Feeling Useless When You Want to Start Business
#1 Feeling Useless — Drown The Ego
Your ego is riddled with pride, self-righteousness and enjoys keeping you locked inside your comfort zone/mental prison. Your ego reminds you that you aren’t good enough, that you could never start a business and that you’re a joke… “so sit tight and stay comfortably miserable” (I say sarcastically).
It’s time you heard this s**t talker, realised the damage it’s doing and begin acting to prevent it stopping you.
Begin to reprogram yourself and think what you’ll do when your ego shows up.
The first step to reprogramming is your awareness. You can’t stop these thoughts but you can learn to process them properly.
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For example — your ego says…
“You can barely make it work on time, how could you ever run a business?”.
By properly processing this false talk you can say to yourself…
“Although lateness is a bad habit I need to fix, I know deep down my lateness is because I hate my job. I drag myself there instead of willing entering. This hate is causing me to be late and it’s more confirmation why I need to start a business that I honestly love. Thanks ego for reminding me that my job is not my life purpose and I need to start acting towards my desires. Plus, right now maybe I couldn’t run a business because I never have. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t learn how. I want a business, so I’m up for the challenge of the trial, error and try again until I get it right!”
How much better is that statement rather than feeding into…”You can barely make it work on time, how you could ever run a business”?
“You can barely make it work on time, how you could ever run a business”?…
Don’t ever repress or ignore what your ego is saying. Just transforms it’s s**t talk into positivity that benefits you. Practice makes perfect so do this every time it has something bad to say, that way you will start to do it automatically and generally always see life through a positive lens.
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#2 Feeling Useless — Learn to Love You
We’re all deserve to feel loved and because many of us are in routines we forget have important our daily roles ours. We devalue ourselves by forgetting how special it is what we do and that it comes from a place a true love.
Think about all of the amazing things you do for others and how different your loved one’s lives would be if you weren’t around.
What do you love about yourself? If you had asked me this 10 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to answer. I could only tell you what I hated! But today I could talk about the love for the different shades in my hair, how my eyes remind me of the universe and how fast my nails go. The more I loved the things about me, the more they improved. My hair is in the best condition it’s been since I was a child! It’s me, so I love it and so should you.
It’s me, so I love it and so should you.
No only do you deserve to be loved by others, by also feel the love from yourself.
But what really helped me to love me more was realising how much I’m always managing someone else’s needs. Women are natural nurturers and many of us are neglecting our needs to serve everybody else’s.
A great tip I use when I’m undecided is to ask myself…
“What would somebody who loves themselves do?”…
No matter how small. The choice may be between hoovering the house or catching up on my favourite TV show. Before I wouldn’t have met my desire to feed my pleasure and hoovered the house instead. Now I drop the things that don’t serve me and I do it when I’m happy and ready. By doing this I put my desires first.
Try it “What would somebody who loves themselves do?”… It works great.
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#3 Feeling Useless — Keep Calm and Mediate
Mediation is one of the best ways to bring you back to your inner self and to nurture your soul. Meditation calms you down and helps you to think more clearly. According to Harvard, they have the evidence to prove that meditation slows down the cycles of the brain in only 8 weeks.
Check out my post here, go to point number 2 and you can start guided a meditation now (only 3.33 minutes long).
Conclusion
The secret to getting the most out of these methods is consistency.
Commit to drowning out your ego so it becomes 2nd nature and your vision is permanently altered and set on positive.
Commit to self-love and putting your needs as a high priority.
Commit to short meditation sessions and find your true inner self
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Originally published at www.StartBizQuitJob.com on May 6, 2016.
